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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.

Gertrude Stein

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.

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